In the past 30 days, I have put more than $8000 in my car, but it looks like I am stuck with it for a while.

Last car payment- 200.92
Pay off car so I have no more car payments - 5100
Double Din radio - 375
Insurance - 92
Gas - 125
Then about a week after I pay the car off, tranny ***** the bed.
Transmission, pressure place, TOB, clutch ect... - ~2300 (i got raped on this one, but I had no choice in my situation.) It didnt really NEED a clutch, but while everything was apart, might as well.


This is my last GM car. It only has 53,000 miles too.

 

See yah

 

haha deuces!

 

Its modded. Pay to play man. Been there ha but im with you, will no longer get a GM car. Im loving my interga GSR too much.

 

Sounds like you run the **** out of it.

 

The thing is, I really dont drive the car hard. I have had it almost 3 years and have been bored with it for a while so I dont even try. I used to have a 600cc bike, so I dont even try to make it fast or drive it like it is a fast car. Most of the miles are highway. I am in South Carolina and have done a many trips to Texas and Ohio and back. Long story short the second gear synchro went out and it went bad real quick from there.

The car has 3 passes down the track and that was when I first got the car.

 

how does that add up to 8 grand....the only tranny failures are from abuse or doing it wrong imo

 

with 50k miles thats crazy, i've never seen a tranny go bad at that low unless the obvious...

 

8 grand is not just transmission. Its just in general how much money I have put in the car in the past 30 days. I know how to drive a manual. I have been drining one for 8 years with zero issues.

 

I beat the **** out of my cobalt everyday and it runs great . Love it!

 

Yeah I beat the **** out of my cobalt on a daily basis, and deliver pizzas in it, and it has been nothing but good to me, track it whenever I can too

 

what year is it?

 

famous last words haha

 

2005 SS/SC. Injen intake, Tweaked GM stage 2 tune, 2.9 pulley, Meth, KDW2 tires, window tint.

it says at the bottom of his first post....

 

Mine's an 07

 

mine?

 

Dang.......I pray that mine doesn't have any problems. Just throwing me some new roters on after the snow passes here in ga haha

 

i've beat the **** out of my car many times no problems you just need to know how to drive and let out of it if it wheel hops..syncros going bad would be driver error sorry to say. i learned how to drive manual on my car too btw.

 

Maybe he just got a bad one, that happens. I know I would be pissed if people were saying I coudnt drive (even if I couldnt), its a guy thing.

 

So you bitch about putting 8000$ in the car. But you calculate the gas, payment, payoff, insc. So dumb.

 

Can't speak to anyone elses vehicles but my own.

1991 Buick Park Avenue Ultra, 180,000 trouble free powertrain miles, sold in 2006.

2004 Chevy Malibu (Maxx) 106,594 {current winter car} zero powertrain issues.

2005 Chevy Cobalt SS/SC traded in summer 2009: 95,000 miles; 2.7 Pulley, 60's, fully bolted and tuned; had some issues north of 90,000. Pay to play my friend.

2009 Chevy Cobalt SS/TC GMS1+, 26,500 miles, zero powertrain issues, in storage for winter. Runs like a champ.

To criticize GM would be short sighted on my part because I ran into issues with a modded/tuned sport-compact/sports car type vehicle. Every other vehicle including my SSTC with GMS1+ has had zero powertrain issues.

Pay. To. Play.

Best of luck with your vehicle.

 

BTW: ordered the MOMO ebrake, got black with silver trim to match my 09 SSTC interior (all black/silver trim). Got it from auto parts dealer .com/ website. Supposed to get a tracking number on monday/tuesday

 

Awesome. Sounds just like mine. I'd post pics, but I don't want to threadjack

 

yeah i blew 2 trannys up in less than 5k miles... my stock tranny holded up to 29k miles and it went... i bought a 0 mile LSJ tranny and blew it up in 5k miles... now the car is completely stock and for sale... next car is eather going to b a VIP car or a truck...

 

I was thinking the same